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439 km southwest Tehran in Iran you will come in to the city Isfahan which called «half word». There are many historical places in Isfahan and 33 bridges is one of the most famous of them.

Moharram, mourning carnival in Tehran

According to Shiites believe, Ashoura is the day ten of Moharram month after Arabic calendar. In this day Imam Hussein and 72 persons, among other women and children were killed by Yazid and their soldiers about 1400 years ago. Shiites still mark this day by arranging mourning carnival. These photos are taken on this day in 2005. It is interesting that, these ceremonies have been getting much extreme after Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.

439 km southwest Tehran in Iran you will come in to the city Isfahan which called «half word». There are many historical places in Isfahan and the motional Minar is one of them. As you see there are two Minars on this monument and both Minars was motioning in old days, but since Englishmen went to Isfahan hundred years ago to find out want is the secret of the motion, they destroyed one of them without finding out the secret.